>>>>>>The gun hysterics have lost what was left if their minds.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>As if these weren't stupid enough:
>>>>>>http://abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-grader-suspended-pointing-finger-shape-gun/story?id=18123294
>>>>>>http://news.yahoo.com/seven-old-boy-lobs-pretend-grenade-during-recess-141128205.html
>>>>>>http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/01/03/dennys-kick-out-belleville-police-for-being-armed/
>>>>>>http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_central_southern_az/florence/florence-student-suspended-over-picture-of-gun
>>>>>>http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/kindergartner-suspended-over-bubble-gun-threat/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Now this...
>>>>>>http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/08/28/family-school-made-deaf-child-change-sign-name-said-it-looked-like-gun/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>It's nice to see the ACLU finally standing up for a civil liberty. If only it didn't take a deaf child to get them off their asses.
>>>>>
>>>>>Children and guns - reminded me of this: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/09/us/tennessee-gun-death/index.html
>>>>>
>>>>>I wonder what Deputy Fanning's sentence will be in this case.
>>>>
>>>>Statistics prove that having a gun in your house makes you less safe, not more safe...however this information is ignored by many - like the NRA who seem to think that best way to beat the gun problem is to have more guns. When the U.N. voted on international gun control I noticed that those against it were: North Korea, Syria, and Iran. Oh and of course the NRA made a big deal about how they were against it too. Tells you something about the NRA doesn't it?
>>>
>>>I just noticed this paragraph at the bottom of the CNN story:
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>>>"No charges have been filed, said the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which looks into incidents involving law enforcement officers."
>>>
>>>WTF?
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>>No surprise there..and if he was charged with anything I'm sure his police union would defend him vigorously.
>>This is also equally disturbing: "...."He took all the precautions, he's a trained law enforcement officer, trains with weapons all the time."
>>Deputy Fanning also works as a school resource officer at Lebanon's Sam Houston Elementary....' - Needless to say I don't have to go into all the things I see wrong with THAT statement. Now if the people involved here would of been not been a cop, from a poor inner-city neighborhood and black, I'm sure the reaction would be a tad different - there would be charges filed and the statement would start out with "He did not take precautions...".
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>If we work from the premise that "guns don't kill people, people kill people" then:
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>- the gun isn't responsible
>- the 4 year old can't be responsible
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>That leaves only Deputy Fanning. Seems like a clear case of negligent homicide to me.
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>Because of his negligence:
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>- his wife is dead
>- a 4 year old boy is severely traumatized; it will be many years, if ever, before he can understand that he's not responsible for killing his aunt
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>Failing to charge Deputy Fanning with at least negligent homicide is outrageous.
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>The article says the weapon was the deputy's personal piece. Assuming he was off-duty that means his union (if any) won't touch it with a barge pole.

I know some states (maybe all of them..I don't know) have laws about failing to secure a loaded weapon. There is a police chief in N.H. that was just charged with that as matter of fact....his girlfriend's 15year old son ended up shooting himself (supposedly - the police are being rather vague on what really happened). The penalty for this is a max of $1,000 fine. http://www.eagletribune.com/breakingnews/x1641179503/Police-chief-faces-charge-in-teens-death
It's just another example of how stupid it is to actually think you're safer having a gun in your house than not. Last time I checked there were 3,413 gun deaths in the USA since Newtown - that is DEATHS - if you take into account the number of people shot but not killed that number really skyrockets. But remember what the NRA says - the only way to combat this gun violence problem is - to have MORE guns! and guns in schools! What a bunch of money-hungry greedy jackasses. I would actually have a little more respect for them if they'd just come out and say its a money thing instead of trying to act like they're protecting us from something. Tell ya what I want - some protection from them!